"Come up out of there!" ordered Oscar. "If you don't you are a dead man!"
"I defy you! You shall never capture me!" shrieked Pargloss, and dove out of sight again.
Ten minutes passed, but he did not come up.
They watched in vain, running up and down the canal bank and bringing many torches to bear upon the scene.
"He went under to stay under," was Andy's sober comment.
Early in the morning they dragged the canal, and at the bottom came upon Pargloss' body.
Rather than give himself up he had clung fast to an old tree stump and thus drowned himself!
CHAPTER XIV.
CAST UPON THE SHORE.
Forty-eight hours later found the Holland XI. out in the Pacific Ocean, on her way to the Golden Gate.